The Dynamic Pipes view helps you analyze workload performance.
- Toolbar
- Navigation Icons: You can click them to access the summary views.
- Sampling Time Frame Control
- Filters the system information for the selected sampling time frame.
- Virtual Partition List
- In SLES 11, filters the system information for the selected virtual partition or all virtual partitions.
- Filter
- Modifies the active workload display. If there are more than 18 workloads, they are grouped by EP in SLES 10 and by tier/access level in SLES 11.
- Workload Pane
- Displays workloads, based on the filter criteria, and several interactive indicators:
- Red workload pipes highlight workloads that missed their SLGs.
- You can click the workload name to see the workload details view and access cumulative, snapshot, and trend data for each workload.
- A pulsing circle near the workload name indicates that a workload is adding requests to the delay queue.
- Request Status Icons
- Shows the number of requests processed at each step, including at system filters and throttles. You can click the values associated with these icons to see more detail.